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Neotyphodium

Neotyphodium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Subclass: Sordariomycetes
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Clavicipitaceae
Genus: Neotyphodium
Glenn, C.W. Bacon & Hanlin (1996)
Type species
Neotyphodium coenophialum
(Morgan-Jones & W. Gams) Glenn, C.W. Bacon & Hanlin (1996)

Neotyphodium is a genus of endophytic fungi symbiotic with grasses. It used to contain a number of asexually reproducing species colonising the leaves of cool-season grasses, but most of them, including the type species N. coenophialum, have been merged into the genus Epichloë in 2014. Two species of unclear position are exclude from this treatment:

Neotyphodium in Index Fungorum Neotyphodium in MycoBank.



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